Resume
Dave Vasegh
Cloud Platforms &
Governance Leader.
A concise web resume focused on AWS platform leadership, secure public-sector cloud, DevSecOps, FinOps and Geospatial cloud services.
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Cloud platforms and technology governance leader with significant experience across AWS platforms, federated authentication, DevSecOps, research platforms, scientific computing environments, FinOps and technical leadership. Proven ability to deliver secure, scalable and cost-optimised government cloud platforms that enable research, enterprise operations and large-scale scientific outcomes.
Currently supporting governance, platform reliability, cost control, and DevSecOps maturity across a 160+ AWS account estate at Geoscience Australia. Known for shifting cloud services from account-level administration toward reusable platform capabilities, helping research and business teams focus on outcomes rather than infrastructure complexity.
Leadership and Delivery Impact
- Leadership in evolving cloud services from account-level administration toward reusable platform capabilities, including standardised, secure and scalable foundations that reduce operational cost, complexity and delivery overhead for science teams.
- Team management through incident, problem and change management while fostering practical knowledge sharing, accountability and service continuity.
- Deep AWS platform expertise with a cross-cloud governance mindset, building organisational cloud capability through improved observability, automation, service maturity uplift and operational resilience across complex platforms.
- Strong alignment with secure-by-design principles, cyber security expectations and government operating environments.
- Clearly translates technical, security and financial information for executive, finance, cyber security, delivery and technical audiences, enabling senior stakeholders to make informed decisions and align platform investment with business and research outcomes.
- Proven ability to improve FinOps maturity, access governance, operational reliability and platform visibility.
Selected Achievements
- Led governance and optimisation initiatives across a 160+ account AWS environment, improving platform maturity, financial transparency and operational confidence
- Acted as Cloud Platforms Team Manager for six months, coordinating engineers, workload priorities, stakeholder communication and continuity of platform services during leadership transition.
- Delivered measurable cost-saving outcomes, including approximately US$300K in annualised savings across AWS operational costs, application licensing, by optimisation, rightsizing and consolidated Compute Savings Plans.
- Proactively identified gaps in platform observability, access visibility and lifecycle governance, then initiated and developed API-driven dynamic reporting workflows across AWS, Jira, Bitbucket, GitHub, Miro and Slack to improve security awareness, ownership clarity and platform risk management.
- Designed and operated secure, resilient cloud-hosted geospatial platforms supporting national-scale scientific and enterprise services.
Qualification and Professional Development
- Bachelor of Science, Physics
- CompTIA Security+, 2025
- AWS Solutions Architect Training, 2024
- Agile Project Management, RMIT, 2023
- ArcGIS Enterprise Deployment